endnote n.206: the squeak
Being out of the sociolinguistic loop, L.A. has no way of knowing that ‘To hear the squeak’ is itself the very darkest of contemporary Canada’s euphemisms for sudden and violent de-mapping.
Context
A one-sentence endnote hung on the squeaking door-hinge of Antitoi Entertainment as the Wheelchair Assassins glide into the shop — L.A. is Lucien, who has been hearing actual squeaks for minutes and taking them for the hinge. The note welds the A.F.R.'s whole acoustic signature to the book's de-mapping idiom at the exact moment its gentlest character is about to hear the squeak himself.